{"id":579073,"date":"2026-05-12T01:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:41:25","slug":"hull-fc-land-new-leeds-rhinos-player-on-loan-alongside-familiar-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579073\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull FC land new Leeds Rhinos player on loan alongside familiar face"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hull FC have landed a new Leeds Rhinos loan player.<\/p>\n

05:00, 11 May 2026Updated 15:06, 11 May 2026<\/p>\n

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Hull FC have acquired Leeds Rhinos forward Ethan O’Neill on loan.<\/p>\n

Hull FC have secured a new loan player from Leeds Rhinos ahead of Sunday\u2019s Super League game at Bradford Bulls, with Ethan O\u2019Neill set for his Black and Whites debut.<\/p>\n

The Rhinos have a strong and healthy squad right now and have been looking to get their Australian back row forward out on loan for the last few weeks, with a playing opportunity now arising at Hull.<\/p>\n

Joining on a months loan, O\u2019Neill, a close-season signing from Leigh Leopards, will now link up with Andy Last\u2019s side. He has played four games for the Rhinos this year and last played for his parent club in their round four game against Castleford Tigers back in March.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the 26-year-old doesn\u2019t count on the quota for overseas players, having played some of his junior rugby league<\/a> in England while his dad Julian was a player in Super League. He is a direct replacement for Connor Bailey, who broke his collarbone in the defeat to Toulouse Olympique earlier this month, and offers some welcome depth to the back row position alongside Joe Batchelor.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Hull have also agreed a deal to keep Jeremiah Mata\u2019utia at the club on loan for the next month. The prop forward has played the last two games against Castleford and Toulouse and takes the quota spot vacated by Liam Knight, keeping Hull under the ten-player quota limit introduced ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

However, Harry Newman, who had been on loan at Hull for the last three games, has been recalled by Leeds and is understood to be in contention to play in their game against Wigan Warriors on Friday night. Zak Hardaker is now likely to play in the right centre spot, albeit Tom Briscoe is another option with Harvey Barron making his comeback for the reserves at Wigan Warriors on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hull are looking for a big response at Odsal after what was their worst performance of the season last time out. They defeated Bradford 27-20 in the opening round at the MKM Stadium back in February and currently sit ninth in Super League after ten rounds with four wins and six losses to their name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull FC have landed a new Leeds Rhinos loan player. 05:00, 11 May 2026Updated 15:06, 11 May 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20805,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-579073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-fc","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}